you know that is a position called ronnie's in the country already in gold by violent protests all after friday's deadly conflict an apparent result of the syrian crisis below but. a return to chaos more civilians including children killed in libya as government cling to militia shell a town traditionally loyal to the old regime again after a moment he was killed. also protests a scuffle with police as tens of thousands marched against austerity in london the closures i could dance in athens as greece suffered and the nationwide strike summering the mood of a new you crisis summit in brussels. and in your attempts to breach the blockade of

gaza they slaughtered israeli forces stop a humanitarian ship and arrest certain acts of istanbul with. the latest news and the week's top stories this is the weekly on r c hello and welcome to the program thousands of people in lebanon are expected to join the funeral of a top intelligence official killed by a bomb in beirut on friday the massive turnout is being encouraged by the opposition it declared a day of rage against the regime in neighboring syria which they blamed for that time they swayed sentiment on the streets already strained to the limits he's a rino going to report. the situation in lebanon remains far from easy in fact it has been exasperated by the explosion during the rush hour of course there was a horrific scene which followed and then almost immediately of course during the

night the people started people started pouring out on the streets resurrecting the old tensions between the sunni and the shia muslims which have been kind of a back burner for a little while in the country but now it seems like there is a go ahead to the tension in the country there is there are calls from the march fourteenth movement to stage a date over rage on sunday and they are now openly expressing the fact that they believe all of this is the doing of the syrian government they of course reminding of them all the people who were killed on the day itself for a police official who was known to sit here and to syrians now people are saying basically that they want the government to step down the prime minister has filed a petition for his admission to the president by the president refused and a lot of people at this point already starting to express their worry that the conflict in syria inadvertently or purposefully is being spilled into the

neighboring country into lebanon. and oaxaca historian and visiting professor of international relations a book and to university in turkey says rebels benefit from to have units in neighboring states. it's possibly an internal and lebanese thing in it's possibly even a criminal act just over some sort i fit in but the most likely explanation is that it's a link to the syrian crisis location where the bomb went off very close to an important syrian bank and you know way what we're seeing is really gradual extension of the conflict in syria outside the church in syria and it's not just that this is a kind of natural process where there are overlaps of various groups or over the borders of syria lebanon and it's also that perhaps in the interests of one side to really international as this crisis i mean the opposition has been constantly calling for international assistance and international intervention and the more the neighbors of syria seem to be destabilized by the housing inside syria then of

course the easier it is to make an argument that some kind of international intervention must come about in order to preserve the peace. in the midst of syria's spiraling civil conflict more reports of weapons flowing into the hands of a kind of box rebels from the lebanese border are coming to life and reports on smuggling spot on the two countries frontier. training for war getting ready for battle and possibly their deaths these young recruits are preparing for what their instructors call a campaign to rid syria of tyranny. some of these soon to be fighters haven't even held a gun until now. this is the first time i use weapons there was no need for them before the revolution now we carry weapons to get rid of assad. weapons have yet to topple the government of president bashar al assad but they're flowing into the country with ease it's a trend that has some officials worried those will provide arms to either side only

a contributing to for the me jury and the risk of unintended consequences porous borders with its neighbors make the flow of arms almost impossible to stop and lebanon's town of is one of the main gateways behind me is the way to one of the illegal border crossings between lebanon and syria weapons fighters and supplies go in to syria while refugees fleeing the violence come out but by no means a safe or easy journey frequent shelling as well as a large minefield on the syrian side of the border crossings like these a deadly gamble a gamble that lebanese sympathizers of syria's opposition are more than willing to make. this is five thousand dollars thirteen hundred eighteen hundred and two thousand in tripoli r.t. spoke to this arms dealer whose business was booming. people come or contact me every day we have a revolution next door for sure we will help them topple assad today during.

the weapons may be easy to come by the high. part is understanding exactly where they go a classified report uncovered in the new york times reveals that many of the arms sent to syrian rebels are ending up in the hands of hardline islamic jihad one of the leaders of the f.s.a. said you know we admit that we. infiltrated the jihadi jihad these are coming in calling to reports from all over the muslim world but we don't know exactly who they are back in syria both in the training camps and in the battlefield rebels talk of high hopes for a bright future. i hope that there will be free elections that the syrian people will be able to choose the officials they want and that we will win back our rights freedom of expression and political freedom exactly what that freedom looks like may depend on who's getting the guns. lucy catherine of lebanon.

took intercepted another syria bound plane flying through its airspace earlier this week to search its cargo and i mean in plane taking aides to aleppo was grounded before being shocked at the second case of its kind last week a sewer and passenger jet was also forced to land for allegedly carrying russian made new nation's most go denies there were weapons on board and maintains it was equipment for radar stations and money and try to editor in chief of a german news magazines as part of turkey's proxy war in syria. it's a complete probation syria about not just a more serious also probation well co-horts the peace in the middle east region and so. generally what turkey does right now this is this compete again it's not new with the billions going from western countries from gulf states to the syrian rebels we are not discussing about the whore material we're not discussing about the weapons that i'm going mission and of course the

communication technology which is delivered to the to the rebels in syria by other governments what we are discussing now about two planes. tricky and this should be the international affair this is what the u.s. government is doing there it's part of the propaganda war we witness since a long time. are still ahead for you iran learns a lesson in censorship almost insulting of tehran state t.v. and radio channels who are taking off in europe will bring you want to expose and malice and what's behind obama. meanwhile in libya violence has resumed with a new vigor at least twenty six people have reportedly been killed in the latest that time by pro-government militia against the stronghold of the former regime and you may find some of the following images disturbing the town of bani walid has been under siege for other two weeks as it is suffering from severe shortages of food and let's leave this new authorities also said that mussa ibrahim a spokesman for the toppled regime has been captured in the area but later backs

away from the statement and political activists. say he has sailed around the jaeger state hasn't recovered from the devastation of the nato backed rebels brought. division not only has not only for. the militias not of their couldn't very well you know which is you know highly populated area. because the. children also. used chemical weapons in the divorce. court i mean with the people inside the city these militias are. the ones going through in control of libya and the need to consume in libya. or possibly means. opposition. is not really covering. the situation in libya because they don't want this at this example to say what we succeed in libya so we will

succeed in syria it. will be of egypt of my point of view. the u.s. could be creating more problems for itself in pakistan i mean you see our small drones but there are fears it could mean a build up of deadly toxin brought under in turn lead to even more than a. massive crowds numbering in the terms of finals and have filled the streets of london most serious the policies of the coalition government scuffles erupted in the aftermath of the rally as demonstrators taunted coffee shops and the subway hotel the march was organized by the trade unions and attracted people from across the country prime minister david cameron recently tough decisions for their struggling to me she was among the. thousands of people have taken to the streets of london and announce he'll start the much older lies by the trade unions. many

people have said is against the cuts they say a lot like the economy that there are people from all walks of life there are nurses worried about the n.h.s. there are police officers all feed the role worried about the front line services and amongst the people you see marching here today many many families all across the age range but they've been affected in some way by the continued cuts my parents rely on the n.h.s. who can say can't get worse my son to stephen he's paying nine grand a year in fees i work in the tree sector and legal aid is being caught so we were very vulnerable people and i won't be able to get the same help from the next year they just protect their rights they protect the interests of the rich and they build out fear in the people who are it through marching against the cuts and she's marching for the future situations where. marching to my future is banks now cause it's not just person that's been affected they all start because they've had

a europe wide effect of the euro crisis rumbles always seem to start taking great especially in the last month in spain in greece all across the year are you saying that people. simply saying that they've had enough here in london as we said possibly into the hundreds of thousands maybe even more that come out here so much against the austerity. austerity was on their agenda elsewhere in europe this week the e.u. summit in brussels european leaders have agreed on a deal that would bring centralised bonking supervision to the continent however they summit was marred by fresh protests in gear up tens of thousands of greeks descended in athens as a nationwide strike got underway clashing with police one protester died of a heart attack i mean this council's imagery parents teachers and students marched in condemnation of implementing government stage occasion and capping three days of industrial action. there's one thing we've learned over the past couple of years is that when you're in the u.s. something about this craze is they usually mean the exact opposite. end of the

crisis inside probably means that spain in greece was the going into depression greece phone next to one of the contract to the economy in fact it was explained to me without employment status of twenty five percent of the different regions in spain which are demanding secession you have actually you fascist forces on the rise in the east the. move that we haven't seen since the one nine hundred thirty s. so i think really what's happening is that this crisis these actions being out of the two things are getting a lot worse and the stomach completely has to address any of the structural problems which include most importantly the embrace between morals and actual sector which is completely insolvent and a series of states which are. so dealing with the euro crisis means a lot of pressure especially in the case of president online and with jibes coming at him from all sides just recently one very annoyed function i can has called him

an imbecile after move to the country's deficit plus. hundreds of chicago inmates are stepping forward to describe how they were tortured to confess by. guns and a victim say their piece was racially motivated. homeland security now has robot tunas seriously robot fish the drones in the sky spying on you just weren't good enough effect they've revealed that they're going to be using robotic hummingbirds soon who how cute these things can only see you though above the water now during the one percent or less of your life that you spend swimming homeland security will be keeping you safe since nine eleven we've heard ad nauseum that we need to be kept safe so americans have given up their

rights but if things got that much safer honestly has any of the stuff ushered in some sort of peaceful utopia no it hasn't the best terrorism prevention would be to not bomb secular regimes in other countries like libya so some fanatical wackos come to power that would help way more than robotic spy fish i hear a lot of people talk about personal responsibility in a lot of speeches and yes personal responsibility is a key component of the american way slit people provide for their own defense what is going to protect you more shocked than under the bed or terminator two so homeland security can of tuna right but i just might be. eve's.

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this is the weekly on r.c. welcome back a humanitarian ship bound for gaza has been stopped and diverted to the israeli port of ashdod it with thirty appropriate syrian activists arrested israeli defense forces claim the ship had no humanitarian aid on board activists say soldiers

boarded and captured the vessel outside gaza naval border they voyage was the latest attempts to breach the israeli blockade of gaza which has been in place for the last for the last five years it comes to years after the so-called freedom flotilla with a target with nine unarmed activists killed by israeli commandos but victoria strand a spokesperson for the last battle says their mission is to bring international attention to the justice in just as are the israeli blockade of gaza who can achieve that we can make the international community to focus on the fact that the blockade still is going on that it is a siege and to get it is getting worse year by year and do what we are doing is actually walk to w.h.o. new niece seth save the children learn fifty yarder in june sorry saying that. the blockade has to end it is now its sixth year. you also say there there are.

you walk through situation fuel situation the health situation is deteriorating dettori all the time. the build up of tension is speaking ahead of the u.s. presidential election the two top runners will face off on monday in the last televised debate democrat and republican make trial nice seem to be getting all that time ahead of the vote but they aren't the only participants this policy and independent candidates have to struggle for attention they swig the green party's jill stein was arrested together with her running mate while trying to get entrance to the latest debate that's despite the name appearing eighty five percent of the ballots across the country and abandonments k. big green parties can paint management believes the tea party domination is dated lula's and corporate control the reality is that there's nothing in our constitution which prevents a multi-party system from emerging here in the u.s. but we do have laws on the books all across the country and we also have the

actions of private corporations that have grown up over the last sixty years to prevent independent parties from challenging the two establishment parties here in the united states the laws that we have in the books prevent or make it very difficult for independent parties to get on the ballot to give voters that choice those laws date from the cold war they date from the mccarthy era in which there was a fear of communism and socialism and they tried to make it very difficult for a progressive party some particular to emerge here at the green party we have overcome many of those challenges joel stein is on eighty five percent of the ballots yet they're still preventing her from taking part in the debate if you look at the success of the green party despite all the obstacles we face it says that there is a great demand for the greens people vote for the greens here in the u.s. . independent candidates will be getting about our own platform for debate with the help of r.t. on tuesday and of course we're keeping a close eye on the upcoming vote so cheated on monday as we kick off our special coverage of the race for the white house. will there be

a war on iraq. china friend or foe is missile defense offensive. where translates to your selection of close october twenty second on our team. the european commission has been trying to brush off accusations that altered a ban on more than a dozen iran state t.v. and radio stations its and that satellite providers acted on their own accord it came out of the e.u. approved a new set of sanctions on iran as western nations continue to strangle its economy of fears of terror and atomic ambitions and they say they punishment targets mainly iran's financial and trade sectors but political analyst chris bambery doesn't buy such pain. they don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to think that by banning. media nineteen t.v. and radio stations from access to europe it does look like you for the step towards military intervention against iran given it happens on the same day that the pause

is for the sanctions on iran and against the background of a continuing military buildup by america but as british and french allies in the persian gulf and the siren calls from told the four american action against against their own day therefore it seems to be a father ramping up of this and this was the you cannot just buy a private satellite company to withdraw access. and coming up next hour that is back on the idea of an economic strangling over the country search for ways to deliver the west and the export of tehran's oil by trying to find a new payment tree. the cia this week off to the white house to allow the expansion of its unmanned aircraft really eat it would allow the agency to keep up its drone missions abroad including the deadly strikes in pakistan the cia's request came just a day after pakistan's interior minister quoted this as stakes that say eighty percent

of those killed by the drones are civilians and he said over two thousand people have died in to. three hundred strikes so far one hundred qureshi from pakistan's political lobbying group says washington is only creating more militants with its tactics. this is a major blow to us so diplomacy and position in parks done and this is the first time that a senior official actually come out to say this make this kind of a statement there's no evidence that the drones have actually helped buckstone control the militants on the contrary pakistan has been very much very successful lives in the military in flushing out terrorist from the northern region of so wide back in two thousand and nine and clearing and cleaning up that entire area and if now we see a resurgence of some of the activity of the terrorists it is because of these safe havens on the what i would call the american side of the border which is the afghan side of the border ninety six incursions from the of gun territory into parks done resulting in killing of bucks and you soldiers and bugs and civilians if you're

a potato in a few minutes or child special report on the new gold rush in colombia. the legacy no one should be proud. of scrap metal littering pristine arctic landscape building stilton over their foundation pipes spewing black smoke over the snow covered peaks the traces of the soviet industrial activity on the burgen archipelago don't make a pretty picture the guiding principle here is the worse the better locals like to tell the story that back in soviet times when no regions were visiting barons were they also expressed amazement. at how prosperous this stuff was well times have obviously a challenge when they saw it lags they still attracting a region tourists are barons work cons watch native cash that's why when.

our goal is common as was uncovered here a few days ago instead of throwing it away the local administration decided to paint the venue and put it at variance with central square that in the nine hundred eighty s. there was a burgeoning mining community the soviet union was determined to maintain its own costs. are located halfway between north america and western europe in archipelago is part of norway with a special status that allows other countries to set up industrial bases here in the middle of the cold war it served as the use of western most outposts now it's one of the last preserved relics. of the soviet union if it was cut off from any financial support for two decades. for western tourists and i think it could be even more appealing for russia. to keep its presence on spitsbergen russia still maintaining

a coal mine here but in terms of profit is far behind local souvenir shops so between. bill it is a big hit the defunct arne curtain still helps keep the money flowing guys it's a russian thing you know so what you're kind of playing rumbles all link here on the snow. you are the local administration is increasingly under pressure to bring the infrastructure up to more than standards these modernization efforts are not very popular with tourists if you come into a very authentic place like non-sport i think it should stay the way it is that would be my wish i mean that's the part also the a little you know authentic traditionally up there. i should not i would not like to have it in a shiny condition to be on those they tend to change even for the better is not always good for business something that even a local band has become attuned to when they try to add morning russian songs to

die repertoire the audience called old the wanted to hear it was a song comfortably familiar.

d.l. selenski oh mine is absolute proof of what human ambition is capable of in order to satisfy its hunger for gold. it spreads out into forty four levels under the earth is the oldest mine in colombia and the second deepest in latin america.

it is two thousand five hundred meters deep that those and there are underground galleries of over four thousand meters in all the tunnels combined are over eight hundred kilometers long. else alessio is a giant undergone labyrinth of complex tunnels here one thousand one hundred people work and you really have to know where you're going. this is the vane.